National Presidential Primary County and State Maps (1912-2020)

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realisticidealist, I have New England town maps from the 2008, 2004, and 2000 presidential primaries. However, most of them are not in Atlas colors and it would take me a very long time to change that. Would you like to see them anyway?

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Why all the light-gray towns in Vermont? And where did you get data for Maine?

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Thanks very much, I appreciate it. I'll get started converting those maps of mine to Atlas format to post here.

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You're welcome. Do you have a map of the Republican primary from 2008 for NE? If not, I can probably make one for you.

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It makes me swoon! Thank you for the fantastic work.

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Brilliant! Can you do some insets for Boise, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, etc?

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Brilliant! Can you do some insets for Boise, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, etc?

Boise:

You're the best.

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I'm thinking about trying to do a national (or as close to it as possible) precinct map for the 2012 primaries and maybe hosting it somewhere. It would be a lot of work though, so I don't know. What do you guys think?

I honestly do not think that the aesthetics of the project would justify the colossal amount of work that you would need to do to accomplish that feat. I think if you zoomed all the way out on that map, as is the case with your Iowa map, you would see something that looks a bit like TV static. And in any case, how will you get precinct data for a place like Massachusetts?

But if you were to do the 2008 primary, that would be fascinating. I can help with New England and New York...

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Romney won the city of Columbus by less than ten votes.

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When looking at these primary maps, its almost as if Obama/Clinton and Romney/Santorum look like the same urban/rural split.

It's not so much an urban/rural cleavage in the Republican primary so much as it is a suburban/rural divide. Santorum polled quite well in the big cities - he won Dayton and Toledo and came very close to beating Romney in Columbus. Income and religion are, I think, the two most relevant cleavages to explaining the divide.

really cool.  I wonder if Ward and Trimble townships are especially libertarian.  What's up with the one Gingrich precinct?

I think that's just an anomalous result in a part of the state in which Gingrich's achieved his best results - in the rural vicinity of Dayton. There's nothing particularly unusual about Perry Township (52 votes for Gingrich, 44 Santorum, 43 Romney, 13 Paul).

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Yeah, that wasn't right at all. It's actually pretty astonishing how small of a role religion played in this primary.

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I calculated the GOP results for the 39 Iowa cities with a population greater than 10,000. Here they are listed in descending order of population. Yellow: Cruz, Red: Trump, Pink: Rubio.

Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Sioux City
Iowa City
Waterloo
Council Bluffs
Ames
West Des Moines
Dubuque
Ankeny
Urbandale
Cedar Falls
Marion
Bettendorf
Marshalltown
Mason City
Clinton
Burlington
Ottumwa
Fort Dodge
Muscatine
Coralville
Johnston
Clive
Altoona
Newton
Indianola
Waukee
North Liberty
Boone
Oskaloosa
Spencer
Fort Madison
Storm Lake
Keokuk
Pella
Waverly
Carroll

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The candidates' top five cities:

CRUZ
1 Boone 31.7%
2 Altoona 31.1%
3 Pella 30.0%
4 Waterloo 29.8%
5 Oskaloosa 29.6%

TRUMP
1 Council Bluffs 36.6%
2 Ottumwa 33.7%
3 Burlington 31.5%
4 Clinton 31.1%
5 Muscatine 30.8%

RUBIO
1 Clive 38.3%
2 Ames 37.9%
3 Iowa City 36.9%
4 Waukee 36.5%
5 Cedar Falls 35.0%

CARSON
1 Spencer 14.3%
2 Keokuk 14.0%
3 Oskaloosa 12.4%
4 Council Bluffs 12.2%
5 Pella 11.2%

PAUL
1 Iowa City 13.1%
2 Ames 10.2%
3 North Liberty 9.0%
4 Dubuque 8.1%
5 Cedar Rapids 7.1%

BUSH
1 Carroll 7.6%
2 West Des Moines 5.8%
3 Clinton 5.7%
4 Des Moines 5.5%
5 Mason City 5.2%

FIORINA
1 Keokuk 7.2%
2 Carroll 5.5%
3 Clinton 3.8%
4 Marion 3.4%
5 Coralville 3.1%

KASICH
1 Bettendorf 6.6%
2 Iowa City 5.0%
3 Council Bluffs 4.6%
4 Clive 4.1%
5 Davenport 4.0%

HUCKABEE
1 Ottumwa 6.4%
2 Fort Dodge 4.6%
3 Boone 3.9%
4 Keokuk 3.4%
5 Altoona 2.9%

CHRISTIE
1 Fort Dodge 6.4%
2 Boone 4.1%
3 Clive 3.7%
4 West Des Moines 3.4%
5 Mason City 3.4%

SANTORUM
1 Storm Lake 3.7%
2 Sioux City 3.6%
3 Marshalltown 3.1%
4 Indianola 2.4%
5 Waverly 2.1%

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New Hampshire with city wards.

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Try this one, shua. The original image is too large for the gallery.

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Leading opposition to Trump, by town. Kasich in blue, Rubio (appropriately!) in red, Bush in brown and Cruz in yellow.



Congratulations to realistic for his superior work in this thread.

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